Receipt, purchase of town lot in Iowa Point, Kansas Territory Webb, Thomas H. (Hopkins) , 1801-1866 (Creator) This handwritten receipt documents William Patton's purchase of one town lot in Iowa Point, Kansas Territory, from Harvey Forman, founder of the town. 1858 was the culminating point of the town's history. At that time it was the second largest city in Kansas and was a business rival to Leavenworth. Also in 1858, a ferry company was organized, with Forman as president, and a steam ferry-boat put in operation on the Missouri. The town built up rapidly, a brick-yard was started by Joseph Selecman, and this material was substituted for wood in almost all buildings erected from that time on (adapted from William G. Cutler's "History of the State of Kansas"). This item was part of Territorial Kansas Online (TKO# 102288). TKO topic guide: Immigration and Early Settlement>The Economy>Land acquisition 1856-07-29 StillImage electronic image/tiff ku-kansascollection:2805 https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-kansascollection/2805 aspace_82fdc8ec4754dd268c17e8a0e78f3c05 Papers concerning Kansas Territory and Highland, Kansas--http://hdl.handle.net/10407/9931740670--RH MS 135 This work is free of known copyright restrictions.